Advice from a Community Care Inform guide on how to identify coercive and controlling behaviour, including practice tips on how to assist if you spot the signs Photo ...

Double the number of cases of controlling or coercive behaviour in intimate relationships were recorded in the UK in 2017-18 than in the previous year. The offence became a crime in England and Wales ...

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has marked significant strides in tackling domestic abuse with a noticeable rise in both ...

Writing for HuffPost UK, solicitor general Ellie Reeves MP says the law has transformed the way violence against women and girls is tackled in the last decade.

A new domestic abuse offence of "coercive and controlling behaviour" has been announced which has a maximum penalty of up to five years in prison. Coercive and controlling behaviour can include the ...

Coercive and controlling behaviour is a feature of domestic abuse and gender-based violence, issues that have risen to the top of the social work agenda during the Covid-19 pandemic. Lockdowns and ...

Yet, as we act on this overdue recognition, there is another dimension of control and entitlement that remains largely invisible in the law: The abuse of seniors by those they trust and depend on — ...

The Saskatchewan government plans to introduce legislation that will amend the definition of interpersonal violence to include coercive or controlling behaviour and online stalking and harassment. It ...

A man from Bristol has been jailed for subjecting his former partner to years of manipulative and controlling behaviour. Cody Smith-Alwood, 37, of St George, was sentenced to 38 months in prison at ...